Another carboard chair, by Elias Kulukundis, which was inspired by origami:

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Another cardboard chair, but you can buy this one. The unfortunately named Flexible Love Chair sounds like something you’d find at an orgy, but it’s nonetheless a miracle of adaptability. The accordioned, honeycomb structure can be fit into almost any shape:

Andrej Blazon’s Charity Chair was designed to resemble the hat traditionally worn by an order of charitable nuns. The project is open-source, so anyone can download the plans and make the chair themselves from found materials, thus making it uber-local, and carbon-light:

Sara Paculdo’s Flat Chair won’t win any beauty pageants, but it’s a fascinating experiment. The piece is made just of laser-cut foam; the final shape emphasizes the way that the chair distributes the sitting forces–the entire structure is (purportedly) under constant tension, which allows it to support weight:

Omri Barzeev, a recent design-school graduate, has a knack for foldingstuff into chairs. The back of his Zaza chair starts as a single sheet of plastic, which he then covers in felt and folds into shape. The legs of the chair are basically one huge clamp, holding the backrest/seatpan together:

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Christian Desile‘s folding chair was an award-winning standout at September’s Maison & Object, France’s largest furniture fair. It folds remarkably flat for storage, in a cart or on a wall: